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title: "Weekly Recap | ViaSat +4.49%, most brokers rate it buy"
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description: "ViaSat (VSAT) gained 4.49% this week to close at $61.47, outperforming the S&P 500 by about 4.96 percentage points. The week was choppy: Monday opened lower and pushed higher, Wednesday hit the week’s high at $63.106 before rolling over, and Thursday intraday slid to the weekly low of $58.00. Friday recovered sharply on the session’s heaviest volume, closing back at $61.47."
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# Weekly Recap | ViaSat +4.49%, most brokers rate it buy

## The Week

ViaSat (VSAT) gained 4.49% this week to close at $61.47, outperforming the S&P 500 by about 4.96 percentage points. The week was choppy: Monday opened lower and pushed higher, Wednesday hit the week’s high at $63.106 before rolling over, and Thursday intraday slid to the weekly low of $58.00. Friday recovered sharply on the session’s heaviest volume, closing back at $61.47. Trading was unusually active, with average daily volume roughly 39% above the 60-day median, and Friday alone contributing nearly half of the week’s turnover.

## Key Events

The narrative this week centred on the company’s satellite business and an insider sale. Early in the week, commentary revisited what market doubters had missed and whether Viasat still looked cheap after this year’s rally. The most concrete company event came on Wednesday, when Viasat launched the Maxwell spacecraft for a NASA communications demonstration. On Friday, a regulatory filing showed SVP and CFO Garrett L. Chase sold 4,000 common shares for $235,429.90. After hours, news pointed to continued pressure on AST SpaceMobile from SpaceX competition and the ViaSat dispute, keeping the competitive and legal overhang in satellite communications in view.

## Analyst Ratings

Twelve analysts cover Viasat: six rate it buy, three overweight, two hold, and one has no opinion; none carry underweight or sell ratings. The consensus recommendation is buy, with a consensus target of $103.94, about 69.09% above the latest price. Targets range from $49.00 to $140.00, a spread worth nearly 1.5 times the current price, reflecting wide disagreement on valuation. Viasat ranks 7th among 39 communication equipment peers, above the industry median.

## The Week Ahead

Next week brings a heavy US macro calendar, with durable goods orders, the consumer confidence index, and several housing price series due on Tuesday. On the company side, the next earnings checkpoint is the fiscal Q2 2027 release after market close on 6 November, where estimates point to a loss per share of $0.2849 on revenue of $1.202 billion. Whether this week’s C-suite sale and rising competitive pressure in satellite broadband feed into guidance for orders and profitability will be the key follow-through to watch.

## In Short

Viasat moved higher against a broadly weaker tape while advancing a NASA demo mission on the product front, and analyst ratings remain skewed toward buy with a consensus target well above spot. The tension sits on the other side: weak earnings, an insider sale, and persistent competitive pressure in satellite communications. The decisive test is whether the coming quarterly print can validate the current optimistic sell-side pricing with top-line and order data.

*This article is generated by LongbridgeAI from market data, for information only and not investment advice.*

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